Here are some examples of machine-generated unstructured data:
Satellite images: This includes weather data or the data that the government captures in its satellite surveillance imagery.
Scientific data: This includes seismic imagery, atmospheric data, and high energy physics.
The following list shows a few examples of human-generated unstructured data:
Text internal to your company: Think of all the text within documents, logs, survey results, and e-mails. Enterprise information actually represents a large percent of the text information in the world today.
Social media data: This data is generated from the social media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Flickr.
Mobile data: This includes data such as text messages and location information.
Website content: This comes from any site delivering unstructured content, like YouTube, flickr, or Instagram.